Mortar hod



Sept. 11, 1923. 1,467.314

N. A GIBBONS MORTAR HOD Filed Aug. 11, 1921 Inventor.

Patented Sept. 11, 1923.

NATHAN ALLEN GIBBONS, OF MARTINS FERRY, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO WHITAKER- GLIESSNER COMPANY, OF WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA, A CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA.

MORTAR HOD.

Application filed August 11, 1921.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHAN ALLEN GIB- nons, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Martins Ferry, county of Belmont, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mortar Hods, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to mortar hods, and it has for its objects to provide a simple and inexpensive construction of hod which shall possess relatively great durability; which has the opposite inclined walls thereof formed of a single sheet of metal and convergently related for reducing the width of the front end thereof, and which has its under side, or bottom, of a peculiar shape contributing to the comfort of the user when the hod is carried, as ordinarily, upon the shoulder. This formation ofthe bottom of the trough results in the sides walls 2 being made to converge from the rear end forward, gradually reducing the width of the trough from its rear end to its front end or mouth.

In describing the invention in detail, reference is herein had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective View of the in vention;

Figure 2 is a rear end elevation; and- Figure 3 is a side elevation partly broken.

Referring to said drawings, 1 indicates the flat bottom, and 2 the upwardly and outwardly inclined side walls of a trough which is formed of a single sheet-metal blank of approximately rectangular shape. Said bot- "tom 1 is of isosceles triangle form, the lateral edges thereof inclining outward from the apex, located in a narrow curved channel 3 at the front end of the trough, to the rear end of the latter.

Fitted within and closing the rear end of the trough is an upright end wall 4 which is secured in place by any suitable means,

" as by spot-welding its lateral and bottom edge portions to inturned flanges 1 and 2 carried at the rear ends of said bottom and side walls, respectively, as indicated at 5.

Metal straps 6 attached to the side walls 2, as by spot-welding shown at 7 in Fig. 1, or by rivets 8 shown in Fig. 3, are turned under the bottom 1 and have their lower ends shaped to form complemental socket mem- Serial N0 491,370.

bers 9 within the embrace of which is secured an end of the usual handle 10.

The wider end of the bottom 1, located rearward of the handle-attaching means,

constitutes a seating portion adapted torest upon the shoulder of the user for facilitating carrying of the hod. As is apparent, the relatively wide flat surface of said seating portion provides for distribution of the weight over a considerable area of the users shoulder, and, consequently, permits the hod to be carried with increased ease and comfort. The formation of the bottom intriangular form whereby the side walls are caused to converge for materially reducing the width of the mouth of the hod results in stiff mortar being retained within the hod until a sharply inclined pouring angle is as sumed. In other words, the premature spilling of the contents is resisted and largely obviated by the arrangement of the side I walls in forwardly convergent relation. It will be noted that convergence of the side walls occurs as a natural result of the form given the bottom. I

The junctions of the side walls 2 with the bottom 1 are rounded or curved to obviate objectionable abrupt angles.

The end wall 4 and side walls 2 preferably have their upper edges, as well as the front end edges of the side walls, doubled or folded back uponthemselves, as shown at 4 2 and 2, respectively, to stiffen or reinforce said edges.

WVhat is claimed is In a mortar hod, a sheet metal trough comprising opposite relatively inclined and forwardly convergent side walls, a fiat bottom intermediate said walls, said bottom be ing a triangular form with its apex at the front end of the trough, the rear end portion of said bottom having such width that. a substantial fiat seating area is provided for resting upon a shoulder of the user, and a rear end wall closing the rear end of said trough.

in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

NATHAN ALLEN GIBBONS.

Witnesses:

W. F. KEEFER, H. E. DUNLAP. 

